My Riffs

If I woke up this morning, I’m blessed. The rest is just opportunity. Bad times? Opportunity. Endings? Opportunity. Good times? Still opportunity. 

Comfort isn’t entirely a good thing. Momentary comfort is good and maybe even necessary. Sleeping comfortable every night is a blessing and a luxury. But living in a state of comfort? That’s an invitation to decline.  Do things that push you out and past that comfort zone. Therein lies the albeit hard but better path to bettering yourself and making a greater impact. 

Sometimes we slip. But don’t allow yourself to slip twice. Step forward. Stepping forward is always the right response when things slip. 

We add so much pain to ourselves when we ruminate, when we hang onto the past and when we fight what we can't change. It's so hard to do. It's easy to say stop. But when you can stop these things, you can remove added pain from life. Life comes with enough built-in pain. We don't need to heap any more on.

Tomorrow is a new month. But it’s also a new day.  Great opportunity to turn the page.  We get a new start every single day. Don’t waste even one waiting to start fresh. Do it right away, start immediately even.  A starting line can be drawn anywhere. 

To get better you need to lose some part of yourself. You have to get tired of a certain part of yourself and leave it behind. Often we don't truly want to leave behind those parts. They have become comfortable and accepted. When we truly are tired of those parts we can move ahead. We have to be willing to truly make a change though. In a way, we have to let part of us die to make way for something new to be born.